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tmessier
Inspiring
March 28, 2011
Question

cfdocument running slow when generating PDF

  • March 28, 2011
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I have two servers configured the same way. They're running CF 8 Enterprise (exact version is 8,0,1,195765), Java version is 1.6.0_04. Servers are Windows 2008 Server Standard. On one of them, generating PDFs using CFDOCUMENT is very fast. On the other it's painfully slow, can take minutes for a simple PDF. I've checked everything I can think of on the two servers and they seem pretty much the same. I checked the iText jars, they appear to be the same as well. I've seen other people post with slowness issues, but many posts relate to dynamic images, which are not an issue here because I have a PDF with no images in it. I'm totally out of ideas as to what could be causing the difference in performance. Anybody else run into this and find a solution?

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wicfasho
Participant
May 29, 2017

Add the attribute LocalUrl="true" to your tag..

i.e <cfdocument format="PDF" localUrl="true">

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    meensi
    Inspiring
    February 7, 2012

    Hi,

    Have you solved it?

    I m facing the same problem. In local server its running very fast but the same code taking long time to print a simple pdf(tod isplay one to ten).

    Any information on this could be very useful.

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    akkanto
    Participant
    February 7, 2012

    I have fixed this.

    In my case, this was because of the McAfee ASP anti-virus.

    Basically, it was screening the content of every webpage + contacting their SiteAdvisor website to check for every page… Which was slowing down dramatically the load time of webpages.

    I have excluded the URL and IP of my webserver from the things it’s supposed to be checking and it appears to have fixed the issue.

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    meensi
    Inspiring
    February 7, 2012

    Wow!! good..Can you also tell me whether we can exclude our URL from MccAfee(as my company is also using the same)

    Thanks in advance!

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    TiGGi
    Inspiring
    April 5, 2011

    since you have enterprise version have you tried performance monitor to analyze the performace of your functions?

    Are you getting the data for pdf from database?

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    tmessierAuthor
    Inspiring
    April 6, 2011

    There is data being pulled from the database. The data retrieval should not be causing the performance problem though. I actually ran the code with the cfdocument tags commented out (so it basically just generates whatever is in between as HTML) and that runs very fast. As for using the monitor, I've been limited in my ability to do that in the production environment, unfortunately. I'm trying to find some time when I can take the server down so I can run the monitor with memory monitoring turned on to see if I can get any clues there.

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    akkanto
    Participant
    May 25, 2011

    Any feedback on this issue? I am experiencing the same thing here.

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